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Initial doubts
by Ciro Iriarte 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Hi, I posted some questions in the forum, but the maillist seems to be a lot more active, so I'll summarize them here: 1- Trending Support: Is that on the roadmap?, from what I've read RRD already supports trending.. 2- Collectd: I see there's support for collectd, should I implement it alongside observium?, would that duplicate data?. Which version works nice with observium?, 4.10 or 5.0? Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://cyruspy.wordpress.com --

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Changing password for an other user
by Fältman, Mikael 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

How do I change password for a user that has forgotten his password ? I know how to change my own password but not for an other user. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Patch to monitor by-outlet APC MasterSwitch bars
by Jordan Kirby 08 Dec '11

08 Dec '11

Hi, We have recently installed some APC power bars that can be monitored by outlet (AP8653). I have written a patch for Observium (attached) that creates sensor for each of the ports on a AP8653. The patch also includes getting the input voltage for the newer "rPDU2" type power bars. I found the snmp queries to be slow against these new apcs when returning the current information, hence the increased timeout. Any suggestions/improvements are more than welcome! Regards Jordan

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No authorisation to app apache
by Fältman, Mikael 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hi My "normal users" can access the page App >> Apache (they are granted access to the device) but the graphs is not displaying. Only the text "No authorization" and a pink graph showing no values. Is this a bugg or do I have to grant access other than to the device for the users ? The Administrator classed users have no problem. Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Adam Armstrong 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Aha. Sounds like new behaviour in Ubuntu copied from debian upstream. Its very annoying, as you discovered. Ill need ti mention it in the install guide, as currently its only a footnote for debian! Adam. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Actually: Ubuntu 11.10 Upgraded the distro not long a go. //Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 22:15 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Debian? Or another braindead distro which breaks snmp by removing mibs? Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: Ah. That was a good switch ! OUTPUT from debug (not working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101: Unknown Object Identifier (Sub-id not found: (top) -> nsExtendOutputFull) So I added “NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::” to the file “includes/polling/applications/apache.inc.php” and it solved the problem. Now it all works as expected. New OUTPUT from debug (working): SQL[SELECT * FROM `applications` WHERE `device_id` = '24'] Applications: /usr/bin/snmpget -v2c -c nmspublic -O qv -M /opt/observium/mibs/ udp:liss-bro-fep1:161 NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull.6.97.112.97.99.104.101 Is it a bug or did I miss something. Some ENV param maybe ? Thank you ! Mikael Från: observium-bounces(a)observium.org [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] För Adam Armstrong Skickat: den 30 november 2011 19:34 Till: Observium Network Observation System Ämne: Re: [Observium] poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script Run the Poller for that host in debug. ./poller.php -h <host> -d Adam -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. "Fältman, Mikael" <mikael.faltman(a)logica.com> wrote: ”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com | www.logica.com Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script
by Fältman, Mikael 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

”Observium 0.11.10.2693” I have set up Observium as instructed to monitor an apache server. Everything seems work fine except that there is no data in the graphs . Doing a manual snmp poll from Observium server returns data and the /tmp/apache-snmp file is creataed on the remote server so I know that the script has been executed. (Snmpwalk -O qv -v2c -c xx webhost NET-SNMP-EXTEND-MIB::nsExtendOutputFull -M /opt/observium/mibs) Adding the App to the Device in Observium worked. mysql> select * from applications; +--------+-----------+----------+ | app_id | device_id | app_type | +--------+-----------+----------+ | 1 | 24 | apache | +--------+-----------+----------+ 1 rows in set (0.00 sec) The graphs are created under Apps->Apache But there is no data ! When running the poller.php scrip everythings seems fine. The script outputs: Applications: apache The RRDs is created and the timestamp on the file is updated every 5 min. app-apache-1.rrd A rrdtool dump shows only NAN BUT ! The file /tmp/apache-snmp is not created on the remote server when the poller.php script runs !? (I have removed it after testing) It seems that the poller doesn’t kick the apache-stats.py script on the remote server ! Am I missing something ? Regards Mikael F _________________________________________ Mikael Fältman | Service manager Quality & Security | Logica Sweden Ivögatan 5, 295 22 Bromölla | Sweden T: +46 456 475 41 | M: +46 733 98 44 20 mikael.faltman(a)logica.com<mailto:mikael.faltman@logica.com> | www.logica.com <http://www.logica.com/> Think green - keep it on the screen. This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you.

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draw NA values using different color
by Nikolay Shopik 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hey, I'm just find this graph http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping-demo/?displaymode=n;start=2011-11-30%2012:2… And though it will be nice (if possible) to draw empty(NA) values using different color, like on graph I show.

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sorting type on ports tab changed?
by Nikolay Shopik 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, Does sorting order recently changed on ports tab? When I sort by name of port right now it sort like this GigabitEthernet0/1 GigabitEthernet0/10 GigabitEthernet0/11 etc but before it was 0/1, 0/2, 0/3, etc.

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VLANs Tab empty after an upgrade
by Bruce-Young Majola 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

HI, I have updated to version 0.11.11.2734 and noticed that the VLANs Tab is now empty and does not even show the "Powered by xxxxxx" at the bottom of the page. Regards, Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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Abnormal spike in billing graphs - r2719
by Berant Lemmenes 23 Nov '11

23 Nov '11

Hello, I've just recently setup Observium and noticed a strange spike in reported usage for one billing item, that wasn't reported in the actual interfaces stats. I've attached three screen shots, one of the accurate billing page for the billing entry in question, the 2nd for the interface page under the device, and the 3rd for the same interface as seen from a cricket install. As you can see the physical interface graphs in Observium or cricket don't show this extended period of ~ 8Gb/s that show up in the mysql based graphs. Looking at bill_data for the bill_id in question there were 45 entries where in_delta was exactly 309525032051591 while out_delta continues to change. Here is an example row: 31, 2011-11-10 17:35:06, 299, 309525032052787, 309525032051591, 1196 This has only manifested in this one billing. Let me know if there is anything else I can look at or provide that would assist. Thank you in advance. Thanks, Berant

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Database Question
by Letz Stefan / ACS 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Hello List, we use observium to monitor about 200 network devices including syslog, ipsec, and smokeping. What we see is an excessive growing off database every time we make an svn update. Could everyone else see this phenomen? Mit freundlichen Gr??en / Best regards Stefan Letz Team Manager Customer Services ACS Solutions GmbH Maximilianallee 4 04129 Leipzig Phone: +49 341 355913 45 Mobile: +49 151 11446409 Fax: +49 341 355913 11 www.acs-europe.de<http://www.acs-europe.de> [cid:gold_partner_2011.jpg@10d693991e784a969efcef6bb72627ac] Amtsgericht Leipzig: HRB21111 USt-IdNr: DE814217083 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Thomas Lindner

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Billing question
by Berant Lemmenes 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

I have a quick question to confirm what data is used to determine an overage... I believe I'm understanding the code/database correctly in that it calculates the 95th percentile for both in and out (rate_95th_in/rate_95th_out) and then whichever one is larger is stored as rate_95th and that is what is used for the value that the overage is based on. I just ask because we see ~4-5 times more entries that are over their limit with Observium than with our previous system (which granted was horribly cobbled together, and last maintained in the early 00's), and I just wanted to make sure it wasn't taking the sum of in and out for the calculation. Thanks! Berant

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Re: [Observium] Potential bugs - r2726
by Adam Armstrong 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

This is currently by design. We could do with something to make it prettier though. Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> wrote: >Yeah looks like both my non billing issues were PHP RAM limited, thanks for >the pointer. > >The only other non billing related thing is the global settings link just >pulls up a text listing of the various array's that the settings are stored >in. > >Thanks, >Berant > >On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama(a)memetic.org> wrote: > >> >> Ports page is probably down to memory limits on PHP. check logs. >> >> The billing page is being reworked at the moment, and some things might >> not work :) >> >> adam. >> >> >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:19:15 -0500, Berant Lemmenes <berant(a)lemmenes.com> >> wrote: >> > Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the >> > bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my >> > installation. >> > >> > There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a >> > failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the >> > overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with >> ~16k >> > ports in my system. >> > >> > For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time >> to >> > render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, >> however >> > after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. >> > >> > Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when >> > I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under >> > quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm >> not >> > sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've >> > filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill >> and >> > it never populates. >> > >> > In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing >> on >> > the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the >> > observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose >> logging >> > into the observium.log file somehow? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Berant >> _______________________________________________ >> observium mailing list >> observium(a)observium.org >> http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium >> > >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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Cisco ASA Remote Access Sessions getting Error Drawing Graph
by Jeff Collyer 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Using Observium to monitor several pairs of Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls. On the graphs/firewall page /observium/device/device=27/tab=graphs/group=firewall/ the very last graph is labeled Remote Access Sessions. I'm getting the ubiquitous "Error Drawing Graph" on that row of graphs. whats my next debugging step? The apache logs don't show any errors, so I'm guessing its somewhere in the Observium or RRDtool layers. Observium 0.11.11.2726 Apache 2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.10 MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10 Thanks ---- Jeff

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Potential bugs - r2726
by Berant Lemmenes 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Some of these could be known issues but I didn't see anything in the bugtracker and wanted to see if they were somehow unique to my installation. There are a couple pages that completely error out, the browser get's a failure trying to load. For me that is the main Inventory page under the overview tab, and the all ports page. I have currently 30 devices with ~16k ports in my system. For a page like the all ports page I would expect that to take some time to render as it's pulling together a lot of info for 16k interfaces, however after maybe 1-2 seconds it fails. Filtering under the traffic bills page doesn't seem to work, when I first started entering Bills I know I was able to filter by over/under quota, however now that I have 67 in it doesn't seem to work. Also I'm not sure what the 'All Customers' drop down is supposed to filter on as I've filled out all the customer/bill related fields when adding a new bill and it never populates. In general I don't see any place to look for clues as to what is failing on the page failures, as the apache error.log doesn't have anything and the observium.log file is only poller items. Can I enable more verbose logging into the observium.log file somehow? Thanks, Berant

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Toner MIB?
by Matthew Coene 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Anyone else suddenly have their toner MIB / graphing charts go straight to 0 / nan%?? Can't be sure when it started happening... can only say it used to work... Experienced in svn v2705... Just updated to v2714 to see if its fixed... Cheers, Matt

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NetApp Storage
by Brian Davis 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Does anyone know if it is possible to graph the storage usage on NetApp with Observium? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Davis Concepts NREC bda(a)conceptsnrec.com<mailto:bda@conceptsnrec.com> ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email. ________________________________ The information contained in this communication and any attachment(s) and/or link(s) hereto may contain proprietary and/or confidential information, which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure, and is intended only for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please return it to the sender immediately and delete the original message from your computer system. If you have any questions concerning this message, please contact the sender.

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non-unicast packet OID
by Nikolay Shopik 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hey Adam, What OID is used to generate stat about non-unicast packet, does these below correct? 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.2 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.3 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.4 1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.5 I'm trying catch some error in stat which cause to show as 500M non-unicast packets, which is damn huge.

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Re: [Observium] dlink snmp
by Adam Armstrong 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

I see this reasonably often on cheaper kit. Lots of dell switches do it too. You can disable poller/discovery modules with hyte web interface. Perhaps disable them all then enable one by one to see which it is? Adam. Nikolay Shopik <shopik(a)inblock.ru> wrote: >Hey, > >Does anyone here monitor D-link switches via SNMP? We had small devices >which is pooling just fine, with pretty limited support, but still ok. >And now trying out DGS-3120-24TC and it seems dying under snmp load when >you add it on observium. >And by dying I mean it become bunch of useless metal until you reboot >it. So I wonder maybe anyone know which OID cause such behavior. >_______________________________________________ >observium mailing list >observium(a)observium.org >http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium

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New user introduction - Scaling questions
by Berant Lemmenes 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hello everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself to the list and complement the authors on a fantastic tool! As a little background on our deployment, I work for a Midwestern US ISP/NSP and I found Observium by looking for a replacement solution for our severely aging 95th percentile burstable billing system. However I was blown away by Observium once I got it running. We're now looking at replacing several systems with it focusing on interface/data polling, we have a separate system that we will continue maintain to do SNMP trap handling. Right now we have just shy of 16k interfaces across 30 nodes, with another dozen or two to add to complete our cisco L3/L2 devices. I'm interested in adding new device types for our Cisco 15454 SONET and MSTP systems (and have read the Developing/NewOS document), however if these devices were to be added it would take our device count up north of 600, with a massive increase in interfaces. So I want to make sure I've got things setup well before going down that road. While performance is doing great thus far I'm concerned about things I can do to scale the system. Currently the system is a Xen VM with 4 cores and 4GB of ram, and the load average is staying right around 4 with 40% average CPU usage. Since we're not interested in alerting for interface/node up/down with Observium I've configured each device to ignore and disable alerting. I've also took out the various menu items poller modules for things that we don't need as well. And I need to look into interface names that can be ignored etc as well. I've not yet tried rrdcached but I'd like to see what impact that has on existing load. Does anyone else have any recommendations or additional best practices? I have some thoughts ideas on potential features that could be useful for other ISP users as well, however I don't want to flood the list right off the bat with an even more rambling email. Observium is a great tool, and though I'm not a programmer I'd love to help out however I can. Thanks, Berant

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dlink snmp
by Nikolay Shopik 11 Nov '11

11 Nov '11

Hey, Does anyone here monitor D-link switches via SNMP? We had small devices which is pooling just fine, with pretty limited support, but still ok. And now trying out DGS-3120-24TC and it seems dying under snmp load when you add it on observium. And by dying I mean it become bunch of useless metal until you reboot it. So I wonder maybe anyone know which OID cause such behavior.

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Anyone using 95th Billing?
by Mahomed Hussein 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Hi Is anyone using 95th billing in observium? I've been having slowness issues with it, so I setup a new server, downloaded the latest version and cleared all the billing tables and let it start polling again. This was fine and the polling has been working. The page was loading in less than a second. As the days have gone on, the bills page has been getting slower and slower and now takes at least 20 seconds to load. I am just wondering if this is normal or if there is something wrong. Thanks. Kind regards, Mahomed Hussein Senior Operations Engineer [cid:image936b14.jpg@74cffa9e.a72241e4]<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Tel: +44 (0)1622 230 382 Email: Mahomed(a)CustodianDC.com<mailto:support@CustodianDC.com> Web: www.CustodianDC.com<http://www.custodiandc.com/> Status: status.CustDC.net<http://status.custdc.net/> [cid:image98c948.png@112a1189.765f4e73] ISO:27001 IS:567248 Click to view our email disclaimer<http://www.custodiandc.com/disclaimer.txt>

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one month legend wrong
by Nikolay Shopik 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

One month graph show wrong legend, there only two weeks of legend, but graph is actual month. Basically there only two Mondays in one month. :)

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Cisco Switch VLANs now working
by Bruce-Young Majola 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Yeah!! the VLAN feature is working properly now on the Cisco switch. Regards Bruce DISCLAIMER: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of the message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error. SWIFTNET and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Thank you.

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auto-refresh on individual port graph broken
by Nikolay Shopik 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

It seems, autorefresh is broken when you select device go into ports and select specific graph to view it on full-screen. Actual refresh is working and you can force it by pressing F5 but graph doesn't update until you click again on one of time-window graph.

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